In-flight calibration of the Swift XRT effective area

In-flight calibration of the Swift XRT effective area

The Swift X-ray Telescope is designed to make astrometric, spectroscopic and photometric observations of the X-ray emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts and their afterglows in the 0.2-10 keV energy band. Here we report some results on the in-flight calibration of the Swift XRT effective area obtained anal...

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Hauptverfasser: Cusumano, G., Mangano, V., La Parola, V., Mineo, T., Campana, S., Romano, P., Moretti, A., Citterio, O., Tagliaferri, G., Abbey, A. F., Beardmore, A. P., Goad, M. R., Godet, O., Morris, D., Osborne, J. P., Page, K., Wells, A., Angelini, L., Hill, J. E., Burrows, D. N.
Format: Tagungsbericht
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
AFTERGLOW
CALIBRATION
CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
COSMIC GAMMA BURSTS
COSMIC GAMMA SOURCES
COSMIC PHOTONS
COSMIC RAY DETECTION
EMISSION
ENERGY SPECTRA
KEV RANGE
SIMULATION
TELESCOPE COUNTERS
X RADIATION
X-RAY DETECTION
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Zusammenfassung:The Swift X-ray Telescope is designed to make astrometric, spectroscopic and photometric observations of the X-ray emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts and their afterglows in the 0.2-10 keV energy band. Here we report some results on the in-flight calibration of the Swift XRT effective area obtained analyzing observations of cosmic sources with different the analysis of cosmic sources intrinsic spectra and using the on-ground calibration and ray-tracing simulations as a starting point Our analysis includes the study of the effective area for different XRT operating modes.
ISSN:0094-243X
1551-7616
DOI:10.1063/1.2207972